![]() ![]() ![]() The aims of the module are to 'actualise' the Arcades Project and its contents. We will explore the contemporary resonance and also think about how its historiographical resonances could be used in other ways today. In recent years there have been a number of reworkings of the Arcades Project in film, exhibitions, speculative fiction and other works. The module aims to give a panoramic sense of a panoramic text, to undertake an analysis of a variety of questions relating to history and theory, to develop knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and theory and to develop a good sense of Walter Benjamin's oeuvre, through this book specifically and thereby entering into the work as a whole. A study of this work opens up areas such as historiography, the relationship between philosophy and history, the character of modernity and modernism, the role of the archive, the epistemological status of the fragment, the legacy of the nineteenth century in the twentieth century and the impact of fascism on history-telling. This module concentrates on Walter Benjamin's large historical and theoretical unfinished work, the Arcades Project (1927-1940). ![]()
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